 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so plain ; 215 'Tis to mistake them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north?... | |
 | Susanna Hopkins Mason - Pennsylvania - 1836 - 322 pages
...and similitudes. SM PHILOM'S VISION, 1794. WRITTEN BY A MOTHER FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF HER CHILDREN. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I PHILOM, am a friend to virtue and literature. I was pondering in my mind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 250 pages
...peace, my lot: All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...their ancestors is a luminary through which virtues appear more lovely, but vices more hideous, for " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be...too oft, familiar with! her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Since, then, high rank imposes, in its very nature, an obligation, — the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 pages
...my lot : All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien. As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1838 - 120 pages
...bread, and peace, my lot . "'. * "s All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, : ,. , ,...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing mere than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - London (England) - 1838 - 418 pages
...better, much better, for the visit. Yet, however, the experiment might be considered dangerous. Vice ii a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pily, then embrace. The contrast which he had witnessed between bad and good society had so disgusted... | |
 | Pierce Egan - London (England) - 1838 - 462 pages
...better, much better, for the visit. Yet, however, the experiment might be considered dangerous. Vice it a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs...but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her fore, We first endure, then pily, then embrace. The contrast which he had witnessed between bad and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
....peace, my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1839 - 110 pages
...else beneath the sun Thou know st if beat beslow.d or not, And let thy will be done. The tame c* fomil Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be...too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 
